The New York Times | Lara Jakes: The State Department announced on Wednesday that it would begin imposing economic penalties on foreign businesses working at Iranian nuclear facilities, the latest effort by the Trump administration to dismantle an Obama-era accord with Tehran. Companies from Russia, China and Europe will have 60 days to wind down ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Monday said that the the United States does not have the political and legal, as well as moral authority to judge other countries. In reaction to a recent baseless report by the State Department of the US, Mousavi called the allegations of forgery, conspiracy and illusion aimed at psychological ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi slammed as invalid an annual report from the US State Department about the status of human rights in Iran. In a statement on Friday, Mousavi denounced the US State Departments annual human rights report regarding the situation of human rights in Iran, saying the US regime lacks any political,...

Reuters - The Trump administration will soon issue advisories warning shippers, port officials and insurance companies against the practice of storing Iranian oil and avoiding U.S. sanctions on Iran, a senior State Department official said on Monday. We will target and designate anybody that stores Iranian oil, petrochemicals or refined petroleum ...

Press TV - The US State Department has imposed sanctions against 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia and Turkey over what it calls their support for Irans missile program. Ina statementreleased on Tuesday,US Secretary of StateMike Pompeosaid new sanctions have been imposed against five entities and individuals in China including ...

CNBC - State Department officials said Monday that the maximum pressure campaign on Iran will intensify in 2020, as the U.S. seeks to rein in Tehrans pursuit of nuclear infrastructure and regional aggression. There will be more sanctions to come, and Irans economic problems and challenges are going to compound in 2020, a senior State Department ...

The Wall Street Journal | Jessica Donati: The Trump administration has suspended security assistance to Lebanon, congressional officials said Friday, including more than $100 million for the Lebanese Armed Forces. Congressional aides were told by State Department officials in a conference call Thursday that the aid to Lebanon was being held up by ...

Reuters - The United States said on Thursday it had imposed sanctions on the Iranian construction sector and trade in four materials used in its military or nuclear programs, even as it waived sanctions to let foreign firms continue non-proliferation work in Iran. The decisions announced by the U.S. State Department reflect an effort to increase ...

The Guardian | Caleb Hampton and Simon Campbell: They had been accepted to prestigious postgraduate programs, many in California, but they got no further than the airport On 9 September, Milad Aghajohari and much of his extended family piled into cars and drove six hours from Isfahan to Tehrans international airport. The 22-year-old was on his way ...

Press TV - The US State Department is seriously considering using an Obama-era loophole to allow China to import oil from Iran, violating the Trump administrations earlier pledge to bring Iranian oil exports down to zero, a report said. Only last week, a senior State Department official handling Iran said the US would sanction any imports of Iranian ...

NHK - The US State Department has welcomed Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Iran in his effort to help ease tensions mounting between the country and the United States. At a news conference on Wednesday, State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said the United States and its allies are in agreement that Iran's "destabilizing and ...

Reuters - The U.S. State Department failed to meet a deadline on Thursday to provide information to three congressional committee chairmen looking into whether an annual arms control report slanted and politicized assessments about Iran, a congressional aide said. In a May 16 letter, the Democratic chairmen of the House of Representatives Foreign ...

Press TV - The US State Department has ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq, after repeated US expressions of concern about so-called threats from Iran's allies in the Arab country. The State Department ordered the pullout of the employees from both the US Embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, the embassy ...

Al-Monitor - Responding to a proposal by Irans foreign minister for a prisoner swap, the State Department today urged Iran to release unjustly detained Americans immediately, but did not wholly reject Zarifs proposal. I put this offer on the table publicly now: Exchange them, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today at the Asia Society ...

The Wall Street Journal |Courtney McBride: The State Department on Wednesday blamed Saudi Arabian government agents for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and for other unlawful killings in an annual world-wide survey of human rights that spotlighted abuses by U.S. allies and adversaries alike. The report cited a range of other human-rights ...

Reuters - The United States has no timeline to withdraw troops from Syria but does not plan to stay indefinitely, a senior State Department official said on Friday, a strong signal that forces could stay until the fight against Islamic State militants ends. U.S.-backed forces are still retaking territory from Islamic State in Syria, Pentagon officials ...

Tass - Earlier, the US State Department Special Envoy for Syria stated that the US presence in Syria is aimed at defeating the Islamic State and forcing the departure of Iranian forces from the country ROME, November 23. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov does not agree with the US State Departments statements claiming that the Iranian ...

Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry spokesperson took a swipe at deceitful US officials for trying to misrepresent the reality about the new sanctions on Iran and claiming that the hostile embargoes are not targeting the Iranian nation. In an interview on Wednesday, Bahram Qassemi said many American authorities are suffering from ignorance, narcissism,...

Al-Monitor | Bryant Harris: As Iran sanctions went into effect today following President Donald Trumps withdrawal from the nuclear accord, Washington has agreed to grant Iraq a key exemption that would spare it from some of the most damaging effects. Washington is allowing Baghdad to continue importing electricity from Iran, allowing Iraq to avoid ...

IRNA- Iran's foreign ministry spokesman by rejecting the annual US State Department report on terrorism, said that the release of such reports reflects the double standard policies and contradictory approaches of Washington over the past decades. Rejecting the US State Department's annual report on terrorism on Sunday which raised allegations against ...